Monster Garage

[Mad-Mic]

Monster Garage Slingray!

don't know if any of you watch Jesse James and the Monster Garage crew but Monday night 9 pm est they are gonna take a 78 vette gut it and stuff a huge blown big block in it and make it into one of those mud drag racing vehicles. if you never seen these machines run they are wicked! they got super swamper tires all the way around 4x4 chassis with huge big block blown race cars. they drag race in like 3 foot or so of mud. pretty neat i think i'm gonna watch this!

just thought i'd pass it along. watched the one tonight with a 70 Ranchero that they put a bunch of hydrolics on with 12 batteries and made it into a bucking Bull and a Bull rider rode it. :L

 

[Nut]

It's on right now on the east coast and they're taking what appears to be a perfectly good 73 couple and turning it into a mud bog drag racer. You gotta be kidding me.

......... Nut

 

[Michel73]

Did anyone just see Monster Garage? Jesse and the boys just took a nice 73 Corvette and turned it into a 4WD, high HP, mud eating Monster Corvette :eek I'll have to admit that it looked pretty cool :cool But I'am a bit of a Jeep Nut also:crazy


Save the Wave

 

[NappyRacer]

Yeah i just watched it. It was a nicve car to begin with but I dont know about the 600Hp they said it seems a little high I thought but hey they know and I dont but that chain drive thing was kinda crazzy.

 

[Mad-Mic]

i thought it was pretty cool but i think i would of used a ragged out beat up vette not a pretty much perfectly good one.

 

[78SilvAnniv]

I missed it!

A close friend had just euthanised her 14yo dog and I was consoling her and sharing memories.
Kenny watched the program and said it was very cool. I'll have to catch a repeat.
Heidi

 

[Tom Bryant]

I was just sitting there watching and saying "that car is too nice for this" and there was Dick Guldstrand on the design team. Blew me away. This has to be about 180 degrees from anything he has ever done before. He seemed to get a big kick out of it though.

Tom

 

[Ken]

I merged these two threads so I could follow them easier.

_ken (selfish, ain't I?) :L

 

[Nut]

Nah.... you're just getting old bro.

I still can't believe they not only took a perfectly good looking '73 coupe..... but a BIG BLOCK at that!!! Jeez.... they could have found any mid 70's car that looked decent and used that instead of a $25-30K BB shark. Well, that's one less 1/2 chrome shark left to admire. And yeah..... it did look better than I thought it would after they were done. I'll bet ole Dick Guldstrand got to drive it a couple times too.

............ Nut

 

[Ken]

Dick probably didn't get any nearer to it than where you saw him when he first came on camera. :eyerole

It was bad enough that they chopped up a perfectly good Shark, big block and all, but did they have to smash all those pieces the way they usually do? Like when he was hammering the console to death; totally unnecessary. Friggin' Hollywood.

I wonder how David Sokolowsi feels being called a "junkman"? He is well-known in the Corvette restoration business. But then, why mince words? :L

_ken

 

[Piet]

Cool..

 

[Piet]

More Cool...

 

[Mad-Mic]

I was just sitting there watching and saying "that car is too nice for this" and there was Dick Guldstrand on the design team. Blew me away. This has to be about 180 degrees from anything he has ever done before. He seemed to get a big kick out of it though.

Tom

Tom how can you actually say that? i think that is sorta contradictory to what they did and what Dick does to a perfectly good Showroom new vette and gut it into a race car for a road course. basically the same thing on a twilight zonish note :gap

although i doubt he beat the ever loving snot out of the parts like they did. but hey what do you get when a bunch of hillbillies get together drink beer and make a Corvette into a 4x4 using Toyota parts :lol

 

[Mad-Mic]

BTW Piet those are some good pics! it just goes to show you a Corvette can be anything you want it to be. a drag car, road racer, Mudd Bogger, a Boat, a station wagon, and i think i even saw one with a skinned on a Monster truck once.

i don't think many cars can say that if any at all.

 

[Mad-Mic]

WoWsa that was my 1000th post! :eek man feels like a or something